The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-16 00:00:00

I MPERIAL PAMMMNT HOUSE OF LORDS—Last Evening. The LORD Cumvam.,oß took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a thirc time and passed : Rhymney Railway (Cardiff to Caerphilly)-oswestry and Newtown, London and North Western, and other Rail ways Amalgamation—London (City) Tithes—Bnckfast leigh, Totnes, and South Devon Railway—Northfleet Dis trict (as Sea Lea Bridge District) Gas—and Bristol Port Extension Railway. METROPOLITAN RAILWAYS. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a petition from the inhabitants of Finsbury Circus praying that the Metro politan Railway Bill (Extension) to Trinity-square might not be allowed to pass into a law. CONVOCATION. Lord HOUGHTON rose to ask her Majesty's Govern ment whether they had taken, or were willing to take, the opinion of the law officers of the Crown as to the powers of the Convocation of the province of Canterbury to pass a synodical judgment on books written either by clergymen or laymen; as to the immunity of the members of that body from proceedings at com mon law consequent on such judgments ; and as to the forms according to which such judicial power must be exercised if it belongs to that body. He asked the question because of the verdict that had been passed u pon the volumes called "Essays and Rev!ews." He did not wish to enter into any theolog ical discussion in their lordships' house ; he simply drew their attention to the subject for the sake of freedom of opinion and liberty of religion. Having referred to the origin of " Essays and Reviews," he remarked that it was matter of regret that a book of that description should have been selected by the Convocation of Canterbury. The proceed ings of Covocation in earlier times, in respect to censuring books, were kept in check by the Upper House of Convoca tion. In the year 1700 a work by Tolan, en titl e d "Chris tianity not Mysterious,''was condemned by th e Upper House, but when the Lower House came to consider the subject they came to the c onc l us i on t h at w i t h ou t a l i cence from the King, which they had not received, they had no authority to censure any such book, but, on the contrary, they were advised that by doing so both Houses of Convocation might incur the penalties contained in the statute of twenty-fifth of Henry VIII. Raving remarked upon other and later circumstances, espe cially upon Dr Wiston's, he said he thought he had demon strated the dubiousness of the law upon the subject, and he considered himself justified in asking his first question whether the Government intended to take the opinion of the law officers of the Crown upon the powers of Convocation. The result of the censure upon the " Essays and Reviews" was fraught with the most important considerations, espe cially as amongst the authors were Dr Temple, the head master of Rugby school and Professor Jowett, who had been treated with much injustice by the Uni versity of Oxford. If the system of censuring books was to exist they must go on and not stop, at " Essays and Reviews." They must go on and censure the book of a bishop of a colonial church, which produced some time ago the greatest excitement. He wanted to knew under what form or restrictions they could exercise their power of censuring works. It had long been understood that they could only exer cise the power at the instance of the Crown. To alter a canonical law they required a license of the Crown. He considered that no distinction could be drawn between the censure of a book and the alteration of a common law. One thing had occurred in connection w ith this case which must be most repugnant to their lordships. Dr. 'Williams made application to be heard in his defence before judgment was pro nounced, but it was refused, and therefore Dr Williams was condemned. That, he felt certain, their lordships would think repugnant with justice; and, under such circum stances, he begged to ask the question of which he had given notice. The LORD CHANCELLOR said there were three modes of dealing with Convocation since it had been per mitted to deliberate actively. One was to take no notice of its proceedings—another was, if it were likely to be mis chievous, to prorogue it—and the third, when it exceeded its powers, to bring it to the bar of a court of justice. The supremacy of the Crown was most carefully guarded by the statutes, and any one who presumed to exercise that autho rity directly or indirectly, save under special warrant of the Crown, was liable to the penalties of prasmunire. More over, Parliament had carefully provided that any sentence, or anything else, pronounced by Convocation had no vali dity whatever, and could not be carried into practical effect. But he was only partially aware of what Convocation had done, his authority being chiefly by the reports in the news papers, and he was most reluctant to interfere, for the case might prove to be a serious one, and he shrank from enabling the Chancellor of the Exchequer to sweep into his net at one haul the whole of the archbishops and bishops, all the deans and archdeacons—in short the whole of the Convocation. He warned the right rev. bench, however, of the peril in which they had put themselves, and advised the members of Convocation, it any attempt were made to draw it beyond its proper limits ; at once to secede, and remembering the pillar of salt not to look behind them. In reply to the question of his noble friend, he had to state that there was no intention on the part of Government to take any steps in the matter. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY said that the object of Convocation in dealing with the" Essays and Reviews," was not persecution, but to vindicate the Church of England from all complicity in the doctrines propounded in that work. Desirous of proceeding legally he had applied to Government for the opinion of the law officers of the Crown, which they had declined to give. He thereupon took the opinion of Sir Hugh Cairns and Mr Molt, who held that Convocation was proceeding legally. The Bishop of LONDON thought Convocation had a right to complain of the Government refusing to supply the opinion of the law officers. It was not a case for ridicule —and in religious disputes, however trifling, it was desir able to settle them before they became really serious. The Bishop of OXFORD argued that the Convocation when called together had power to express an opinion on heretical doctrines, although it was doubtful whether it could proceed against the authors. The case involved the religion of the realm and the liberty of the subject—and when the highest authority under the Crown descended to ribaldry, he ought, if he did not respect himself, at least to treat the audience he was addressing with respect. The right rev. prelate also:complained of the misrepresentations of the Lord Chancellor, and indignantly repelled the in sinuation that Convocation was asserting rights in viola ti.n of the Queen's supremacy. . . The LORD CHANCELLOR observed that he had now received a useful warning. He had wished to treat the matter good-naturedly, and without"the slightest idea of bringing charges or making misrepresentations. The subject then dropped; and several bills, including the Street Music Bill, having been forwarded a stage, their lordships sojourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS —Last Evening. Lord PALMERSTON stated, in reply to Mr Osborne, that there was no present intention to appoint a consul at Rio, and that Mr Horgan, our consul at Bahia, would ad interim, transact the consular business there. lie also said that the Government did not intend proposing the repeal of the Government Aot of 1815 relative to tha Brazilian slave trade. On the order for going into committee of supply a con versation of a brief and desultory character was raised by Mr Baillie Cochrane, respecting the conditions upon which the lonian Islands have been annexed to Greece, and the convention between her Majesty and the King of the ilellenes, with regard to the claims of British subjects and others. Mr LAYARD stated that he hoped the Greek Govern ment would do justice to the pensioners ; and as to the bondholders he trusted also that some satisfactory arrange ment would be entered into with them ; but he did not think her Majesty's Government was b ound to interfere between th 3 Government of Greece and its private credi tors. Amongst the other subjects discu sse d on the motion for supply were the a llegedill-treatment o f a pauper lunatic hi the Clonmel Lunatic Asylum ; the resolutions of the union assessment committees aid the necessity of as s i s ti ng their o p erations, an d t h e unsatisfied claims of British sub jects on the Government of P o r tugal. SUPPL Y ' The house went into committee of supply. On the vote of £7,141 for scientific works and caper', merits, Mr A. SMITH expressed his distrust of the weather forecasts issued by the Board of Trade, and said he had taken the trouble to go through the tables, and he found them to be exactly twice wrong to once right. He wished to know whether any instructions were given to the vessels of the Admiralty to be goverzsp3 by the forecasts issued by the Board of Trade, Lord C. PAGET belie7ed he wag expressing the opinion of almost every seafaring man in thit the remarks the hon. gentleman had country when when he said with regard to Admiral Fitzroy's signals were very 7 t infancy, Fitzroy had told them this system was still in .I.dmiral but the and wanted a great deal to bring it to fact was, other countries were joining us in these Lions, and we had daily communication with most of e observatories of Europe. With respect to the vessels of Admiralty , he should think if a shi p went to sea wh en the th 6 bad weather ei g nals were hoisted the officer of that ship was to blame. Great satisfaction with the system had been expressed by people on the sea-coast, anti he thought it would be most unwise to check it. Mr DILLWYN did not object to the drums, but he thought the forecasts were useless. Mr LAIRD believed the observations of Admiral Fitz roy.were of great importance , a nd had been the mean s of easraig a great deal of life and property. Th! vote Wag then agreed to. A vote of £5OO for the Geographical Society was agreed to. A vote of I,COOtor the Rgyal Society was also agreed to. On the vote of £5OO for the Royal Academy of Music, Mr B. OSBORNE r.sk2d for an explanation of the vote. Mr F. PEEL said the Academy afforded instruction to persons wishing to make music their profession. It was partially supported by public subscriptions, and partly by the fees of the pupils, and he trusted the house would not begrudge the small sum of public money that was!given to it. Mr. B. OSBORNE remarked that this Academy was a private institution. They had been occupie I during the pre sent session in putting an end to street ,tee c, which was for the benefit of poor people, but the fact was that the house was becoming a rich man's club. This vote of £5OO to the Academy of Music would, if agreed to, probably go on in creasing year by year. This was merely an attempt on the part of a few amateurs to indulge their own taste at the ex pense of the public taxpayers, and he therefore had no hesi tation in moving the rejection of the vote. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER denied that this was a private institution, unless the term could be ap plied to the multitude of institutions to which the house gave assistance—such, for instance, as the Royal Geogra phical Society, This was only an experimental vote, and was for the purpose of enabling the Academy to obtain ade quate public support. If they failed in doing so, of course the vote would not be continued. Mr AYRTON supported the amendment. and contended that if they were to give this grant to the Academy of Music ' in London, there would be demands from Dublin and Edin burgh for similar grants. It was evident from the tone of the memorial presented by the Academy, that the memo rialists did not concur in the limited view of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for they expressed a hope that the day would come when music would take the same ground here as it did in other nations where the Government entirely supported such institutions. He thought as the higher classes were depriving the lower classes of music that they should pay for their own luxury. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER wished to explain that he did not think it would be unwise in thst house to recognise the claims of Dublin and Edinburgh, in case the present experimental vote should be sanctioned by Parliament in a future year. He trusted the hon. member for the Tower Hamlets would not propagate the fallacy that this vote was a matter as between the higher and lower classes. It was nothing of the kind, but would rather be for the benefit of the middle classes. (Hear, hear.) Mr CLAY supported the vote on the ground that within his own experience a taste for music had been largely de veloped in this country, which was in a great measure due to the Royal Academy of Music. Col. DUNNE wished to know whether it would be regu lar for him to move that a similar grant be made to Dublin. (Laughter,) Mr A. SMITH objected to the principle upon which the vote was based, and thought the less Government assistance music received the better it would flourish. Mr S. NORTHCOTE remarked that increased expendi ture meant increased taxation, and he must own he was op posed to the principle of creating new burdens. Mr DILLWYN said the votes just given to the Royal Geographical and Royal Societies were for special and use ful purposes, but this vote bore no analogy to them, and he objected to it both on account of its paternal character, and its interference with voluntary efforts. Mr ADDERLEY justified the vote on the ground that it was the duty of the Government to cultivate the taste of the nation in art until that taste became self-supporting. Mr OSBORNE said this was a private society, instituted 40 years ago by the Earl of Westmoreland and several noblemen and gentlemen, with the encouragement of his Majesty George IV. (A laugh,) It had gene on without any assistance since that time, but now, in 1864, a band of musicians waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and said unless he gave them something they would be obliged to close the doors. The next thing would be a vote for the encouragement of dancing. If the house wanted this aca demy to be more than a rich man's club, they must resoe lutely vote against £5OO being given to a bankrupt society. Sir J. PAKINGTON supported the vote, which he said was in favour of an institution which had produced some of the best of our public singers. Mr SCLATER-BOOTH denied that the science of music stood in need of assistance. Mr HENNESSY protested against the Chancellor of the Exchequer offering the Irish members a grant for music at a time when, through his mismanagement, their country was going to wreck and ruin, and the people were flying away from tt. (Oh, oh,) Sir G. BOWYER said the science of music was in an in fent state in this country, and ought to be encouraged. The committee divided— Ayes 52 Noes Majority in favour of the vote —lo The following votes were then agreed to :—For Salaries of Custom-house Clerks, for Salaries in Island Revenue Department, and for Salaries of Post-office Department, The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and the house resumed. FORTIFICATIONS AND WORKS. The report on the resolution relating to fortifications and works was brought up and agreed to, and leave was given to bring in a bill on the subject. TURNPIKE TRUSTS ARRANGEMENTS BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. PUBLIC WORKS (MANUFACTURING DIS TRICTS) BILL. This bill was read a second time. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE TRAFFIC BILL, This bill was read a second time. WAYS AND MEANS. The report of the committee of ways and means autho rising the raising of .E 1,600,000 for paying off the like amount of Exchequer bills, was brought up and agreed to. The lonian States Acts of Parliament Repeal Bill was read a third time and passed. The Harwich Harbour Act Amendment Bill was read, g third time and passed. The Bank Notes, &c , Signature Bill passed through committee, The Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) Sup plemental Bill was read a second time. The Scottish Episcopal Clergy Disabilities Removal Bill passed through committee. The Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Acts Amendment Bill was read a second time. Justices.' Proceedings Confirmation (Sussex) Bill passed through committee, Mr BARING obtained leave to introduce a bill to amend the Metropolis Marla 1862. gement Amendment Act, Mr LOCEE obtained leave to introduce a bill to amend the laws relating to the hackney carriages of the metropolis and the proprietors and drivers thereof. Sir C. WOOD obtained leave to introduce a bill to repeal certain parts of the Acts of the 16th and 17th years of her Majesty, chapter 95, and to make provision for the medical service of her Majesty's Indian forces. Mr N. GIBSON, in committee of the whole house, ob tained leave to introduce a bill to amend the law relating to publication of the accounts of corn imported, and to returns of purchases and sales of corn. Mr C. FORTESCUE obtained leave to introduce a bill to amend the West Indian Encumbered Estates Act. The hence adjourned at ten minutes past two o'clock. The Civil Service, Court of Probate—A vacancy for a supernumerary clerk has been caused by the resignation of Mr J. Ely. The Post-office—Mr J. N. Philo, second-class clerk, Secretary's-office, Dublin, and Mr R. B. Guineas, third class clerk, Secretary's-office, London, have been promoted to be surveyor's clerks ; Mr J. Kerr, British Postmaster at Constantinople, to be postmaster at Newport, Monmouth— Mr Jew, inspector of letter-carriers, London, to be British Postmaster at Constantinople —Mr E. S. Adams, from the third to the second class clerks, mail-office, London—Mr G. A. Yeld, from the Probationary to the Third class of clerks, savings bank department, London—and Messrs. A. C. Irvine, J. J. Byrne, G. P. Lindley, and A. W. Tombs, from the probationary to the third class of clerks in the circulation department, London. Customs—Mr J. L. Hooper has been promoted from the third to the second class, Mr H. W. Godfrey, from the fourth to the third class—and Mr E. Davis from the fifth to the fourth class of outdoor officers, Bristol ; Mr V. Knight from the second to the first class of examining officers, Leith --Mr C. M'Donald, from the third to the seeond class—and Mr J. Buchanan, from the fourth to the third class of outdoor officers, Glasgow. Inland Revenue—Excise Branch—Mr:Daniel Hubbard, dropped officer, Louth division, has been appointed officer of Rotherham, first division—Mr W. A. Fiander, officer, Droitwitch division, to Dudley, the sixth division—Mr G. Bramble, officer, Cork, second division, to Droitwich division—Mr R. J. G. Coates, officer, Bath, third division, to Warminster, first division—Mr A. Legatt, officer, Lla nelly division, to Bath, third division—and Mr D. Lewis, officer, West Bromwich division, to Llanelly division. The East Indies—Sir J. Arnold has been appointed act ing Chief Justice of the High Court of Bombay, during the absence of Si r M atthew Sousse in England. Mr J. F. Hore, chief Judge of the Small Cause Court, to be acting puisne Judge of th e Hi gh Court—and Mr B. T. Reid to be acting chief Judge of the Small Cause Court—Mr A. Colvin to officiate as Under Secretary of India in the Home Department—Captain C. B, L. Smith, Major C. Baldwin, Capt. W. B. Thompson, and Capt. J. Ashburner, deputy co mmissioners of the fourth class, to be deputy commis sioners of the third class—Mr E. F. Harrison, officiating deputy auditor and accountant - general,B onga l, to be a Go vernment director of the and of Bengal —M r D. J. MtNeile to be a joint magistrate dep u t y collector of Maorshedabad—and Mr H. L. Oliphant to be joint ma gistrate and deputy collector of Nuddea. Mr 11. M. Bird wood has been confirmed in the api•ointment as Under Secretary to the Government of Bombay, in the Judicial Department and Secretary to the Ccuncil for making laws and regul a ti ons. Assis tan t• S urgeon F t S. Stedman, sur geon to the Governor cfMrabAY, as has been appointed to act Private Secretary to his Excellency, in addition to his own duties, during Mr J, Arthur's absence on leave. — Civil Service Gazate. Persons in debt may obtain instant protection against imprisonment or seizure of their goods, and an entire release from all debts and liaLilities without publicity, by application to Messrs. Marshall, solinltors of the Court of Bankruptcy. Charges under £5 payable by easy instalments. Offices — (established 1830),1?, Hatton-garden. City branch —O. 29or gate-street, Bank.—ADTT. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 16, 1864. Hostilities in America, An influential deputation from the Society for Obtaining the Cessation of Hostilities in America waited on the Premier yesterday for the purpose of urging her Majesty's Government to take steps to bring about peace between the belligerents. It consisted of the following noblemen and gentlemen :—The Marquis of Clanricarde, the Bishop of Chichester, Lord Alfred Churchill, M.P., Mr Yorke, M.P., Mr Marsh, M.P., Mr Repton, M.P., Colonel Grey, M.P., Mr Danby Seymour, M.P., Mr Spence, of Liverpool, Admiral Anson, Colonel Halpin, Rev. F. W. Tremlett, Mr J. R. Fernyhough, Mr C. Shand, Sir Henry de Hoghton, Bart., Mr Bramley-Moore, M.P., Mr T. D. Trem• lett, Rev. W. W. Malet, Mr T. Ray, and Dr Skey, F.R.S., President of the Royal College of Surgeons. The deputation having been introduced by the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Rev. F. W. TREMLETT, hon. secretary, at the request of the chairman, Ad miral Anson, submitted to the Premier that from a very large number of letters which the society had received—especially from the rectors of parishes and other persons—reflecting the state of feel• ing in the country districts ; also from the presentation to Parliament of petitions from the clergy and laity of various parishes in the counties of Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Cum berland, Lancashire, Sussex, Somersetshire, War. wickshire, Norfolk, Berkshire, Shropshire, Notting hamshire, Kent, Wiltshire, Lincolnshire, Cornwall, Devonshire, Oxfordshire, and Middlesex ; from the counties of Meath, Cavan, Leitrim, Roscommon, Antrim, Longford, Sligo, Queen's County, Water. ford, Galway, Tipperary, Cork, and Dublin ; and further, from the general tone of feeling and eon• versation in all social circles;meetings, and the public press, there were good grounds for stating that a strong and increasing feeling exists in the country that Her Majesty's Government should, if possible, avail itself of its friendly relations with the Federal authorities to bring about a cessation of hostilities in America; that, looking upon the restoration of the Union as impossible and the independence of the Southern Confederacy as virtually a fait accompli, any prolongation of the war could only result in mutual slaughter, and in debt and weakness to both belligerents ; and that, bound as both 'are to us by ties of blood and interest, and impressed as they must be after three years' experience with the futility of any advantage from the continuance of so gigantic and sanguinary a contest, it was reasonable to hope that such a proposal, made bona fide, would not only stimulate and embolden the large Peace Party in existence in the North, but would be gene rally acceptable to the majority of the people of both sections, The deputation would further re present that, besides the saving of many thousands of valuable lives, the advantage of a peace to the people of this country would be great. While the direct sufferings of the operatives in the manufac• turing districts for the last three years—though borne with heroic fortitude and met with moat Christian liberality—had been of a heartrending character, and, though mitigated in intensity, still continues to be deeply felt by this deserving and industrious class, the continuance of the war was practically levying a tax on all (for the in creased price of cotton and woollen goods) equal in amount of the interest oa the National Debt, This war tax was oppressive to all families of small means, and was especially hard upon the poor. While wages had not increased in the rural districts, the prices of clothing for the poor had been doubled and trebled, wool having risen from is 4d to 2s 4d per ib, and cotton from 6d to 2s and 25 6d. More over, if we turned to France the war tax was equally oppressive there. From statements which had lately been obtained from that country, it was estimated that the people of France would have to pay this year for their cotton jackets, &e., something like 1,000,000,000 f., or neatly treble the usual peace prices. Other countries, also, had an interest in the re-establishment of peace correspondent to the amount Qf cotton clothing consumed by their rea spective populations—which was in Belgium as in France, 41b per head, in Spain 211 b per head, while in Russia and Italy together the consump tion scarcely exceeded lib per head, In the United Kingdom the consumption was gib per head. The deputation would therefore submit that the Governments of France, Belgium, and Spain had a special interaat in acceding to any proposals which Her Majesty's Government might in its wisdor:, and humanity be pleased to make tending to the re-establishment of peace between bellige- I rents in North America. Mr. SPENCE, one of the vice-presidents of the society, said the deputation was devoid of any party character, and would chiefly urge the plea of humanity. At the present moment if to the battle fields in Virginia and Georgia were added all the other points at which blood was being shed through out the vast area, we should probably find that the total destruction of human life was at the rate of 10,000 a week, or half a million a year. And if to this there were added the amount of woe befalling orphans, parents, and wives, the sum total of human destruction and misery was such as impelled ,an effort to bring it to an end. There was also grave evils that would result from a protraction of the war. The shock to the cotton trade had been endured and surmounted, but that trade was left, and now stood in a most dangerous position. We had present pro• sperity, but it was based on en artificial and in flated price, and the longer the war lasted, and the wider the ramifications of our trade, on this trea cherous basis, the more disastrous and dangerous would be the rear ion when the day for it arrived. And assuming a separation to be inevitable, it was essentially in the interests of all that each power should command the respsct of the others, and be able to take its proper part in the affairs of the world. Future peace would greatly depend on some degree of equality in power. This could not be if the war must needs go on till it ended through the exhaustion of one of the belligerents. If that ex haustion befel the South, all the old evils of the Union would return, but aggravated a hundredfold by the military power and spirit now developed. If that exhaustion befel the North, it was pro. bable that a disruption would occur among Cie Northern States, a source of future discord, as de stroying those relative proportions which were essential to future peace. The present period was eminently favourable to such an effort as was sug gested. In the present posture of affairs the voice of Europe, calmly expressed, could not fail to have its influence. We were urged to inaction by assnr• antes that little time would be needed. Over and over again the period of 90 days was to be final. No less than four years had now been given for this terrible experiment, and it had been tried in vain. The question now before the North was whether or not to continue the disastrous effort. There was a peace party and it was growing, but it had no rallying point. The action now urged would give them a pivot on which to form, not, indeed, the action of England alone which was to be deprecated altogether, but that to be taken conjointly by several leading Powers. 'With such assistance the peace party would rapidly gather strength and numbers and thus we might reach the issue all desired. And there was a contingency that could not be overlooked with safety. Whether right or wrong there did exist in the South a feeling of exasperation on the sub ject of the policy adopted in this country, and if it should happen that terms of peace should be offered and accepted by the South while under this feeling, it might readily be imagined that such terms might be directly aimed, not only at our interests, but our peace and safety. After alluding to the nature of the struggle and the heroic defence of their soil by the people of the South, Mr Spence said that the deputation felt:it a Christian duty to urge that some effect should be made, whatever might be its form, to influ ence t h e term i nat i on o f th i s d ep l ora bl e strife. Mr. MAR SH , ALP., wi s h e d t o call hi s L or d s hip's attention to the f ac t t h at the opinion that an at tempt at mediation would be ettended with good results was not confined to England, but was shared by the whole of the South, the peace party of the North, and by the nations of the European Con tinent. Mr DANEy SEYMOUR, M.P., said he joined the deputation entirely on principles of humanity, and without the slightest bias towards either of the belligerents ; he was unwilling to see slavery flourish, but he was equally unwilling to see a nation forced to submit to a goverßment which they detested. The Rev. W. W. MALET said that bis experience, gained from a visit both to the Federal and Confer derate States during the war, and from intercourse with all classes of persons, both in the North and South, was that there was a general weariness of the war and a desire for peace. Lord PALMERSTON, in reply, said that two facts were abundantly clear—viz., that the war was cruelly destructive to the Americans themselves, and the inconvenience caused by it to other nations was excessive. The question remained, whether the Government had any rational ground for sup• posing that the Federal Government would listen to any proposal of mediation at the present moment. There was an old couplet— " The y who in quarrels interpose, Will often wipe a bloody nose." (Laughter.) He was not afraid of a bloody nose, but he feared that premature efforts would only have the effect of exasperating the North, and making it more difficult when the passions were a little calm, to effect the object all must have in view. The Go vernment was led to think, from all accounts that reached them, that this was not the moment at which any mediatory proposals could be usefully made. Each party was equally confident of ultimate suc cess, and the North equally jealous of interference. If, however, at any future time reasonable ground could be shown for supposing that friendly sugges tions would be listened to, her Majesty's Govern ment would be happy to use their efforts to arrive at such a desirable result as that of terminating this unhappy war. Admiral ANSON, the chairman of the society, having thanked his lordship for his courtesy, the deputation withdrew. The Assault in a Railway Carriage. At the Kingston Petty Sessions on Friday Mr. Nash, who was lately brought before the Hampshire magistrates and discharged on a question of juris diction, was brought up on a warrant charging him with an indecent assault on Miss Mary Anne Moody. The magistrates present were Major Turner, Cap tain Corkran, Captain M'Kinnon, Captain Shears, and Messrs. Western, Gill, Brown, and Hartley. Mr. Eve, solicitor, of Aldershot, appeared for the prisoner; Mr. Thomas Bent, Superintendent of Police on the London and South Western Railway, attended on behalf of the company. Miss Moody, aged 18, sworn and examined, said, —On the 6th of July I left Waterloo station at 10 minutes past one o'clock. l got into a second class carriage. The prisoner got in immediately after me. Immediately on his getting into the carriage he sat down opposite to me. He offered to put my parasol, umbrella, and bng, which I held in my hand, on the opposite side. I declined to allow him to do so. He next asked me why I wore spectacles, and whether I always wore them. The parasol and umbrella were stuck up in the corner when he said that to me. I was sitting with my face to the engine, and he was sitting opposite to me, or rather on the opposite seat, but not immediately opposite to me. He next offered to shut the window ou my right. That was the window next to me. I did not object to this. Imme diately upon that a young woman got into the train. He asked her where she was going, a question he had previously put to me also. Nothing more was said. She sat opposite to me, and the prisoner still sat opposite to me, though not immediately opposite. He leant back in the carriage as though he was asleep. Nothing more was said until the young woman got out at Surbiton. I did not know her. While she was there either myself or she had opened the window again, The train no sooner started than he continued his questions to me again as to how old I was, and almost repeated what he said before. I did not satisfy him. He continued asking me ques• tions, and law down along the whole length of the carriage opposite to me, staring me in the lace. I began to be nervous, and got up to open the car riage door to get out. The Magistrates' Clerk—Was the train then moving ? Witness—lt had hardly moved. It had just began to move when he said, " Don't get out." I shut the door and turned back as if to go to my seat. He then again wanted to shut the window, ,to which I objected, and I stood up. I got up directly opposite to him, and when I did so I felt his hsnd under my shoulder. I moved as though an.. noyed, and I felt what I supposed to be his other hand lifting my dress. When I felt his hand about my waste I moved again. I felt his hand placed right round me, and just then I also felt my dress gently raised in front. I turned round, took up my parasol and umbrella, and went to the carriage door and opened it, and got oat upon the step, and got cut upon the ledge and ran along the carriage, and I was getting on the step of the next carriage when somebody caught me by the wrist and dragged me to the step of the Rest carriage. Then Mr. Stokes—whose name I was told afterwards—and another young man, I believe, held me up. After we had got some miles the guard stopped the train and put me into the carriage where they were. The Magistrates' Clerk—Whom do you mean by " they ?" vVitnese—Why, whom should I mean but the gentleman ? And he really is pulled me into the carriage and saved my life. When I was out on the step the prisoner shut the carriage door that I got out of. gentleman who Captain 11:Kin - non—Did you see him do so ? Witness—Yes, I believe I did. I nave no doubt he did so. Captain Maitinon—Was it immediately after you left ? Witness—lt was just as I got out on the step. I was not quite conscious of what was going on all the time I was on the step. The Chairman—De you remember what was done while you were on the step ? Witness—Yes. I just remember something — that I was there. I cannot remember what I said. The Chairman—When you were taken into the carriage was anything said to you ? Witness—Yes; I heard the names of those who were present. I did not know them personally. When we got to Waking I was asked my na me. I think by the station-master. The prisoner was in another compartment. They gave me a glass of water. An extra guard was put on t he carria g e, and I was sent on to Farnborough , and then the s t a tion-master ordered me ou t o f the carriage , and I gave the prisoner into custody and went with him to the police station. A Magistrate—When you were on the step of the carriage were you sensible? Witness—l can hardl y say. All that Ido know is that a gentleman took hold o f me, and I fainted while I was on his arm. A Magistrate—Have you stated ever y thin g tha t took place ? Witness—Yes ; everything as far as I kno w. To the Chairman —when the prisone r lifted my dress I did not feel his hand upon me. He di d not raise my dress more than 12 inche s. He rai sed it very quietly. y d res s lelt alarm When ledf.eltl wa s quite aware that I hi s hand upon me under risked my life, and I knew that it I got out of the carriage I was liable to be fined. My character, my welfare, everything that is worth having in this world, is far dearer to me than my life, and there fore I jumped out of the carriage. I had no doubt of his intention, and that made me act as I did at the r'sk of my life. I would do it now. I did not say anything while I was on the step. The prisoner did not assist me in any way' Capt. M'Kinnon—And you were willing to risk your life ? Witness—Yes; anything. If my character had been gone my life would have been of no value to me. , Cross.examined by r Eve —I was standing with my face to the wind ow when the prisoner took up my dress, and he wa s sitting with his right arm next to the window on the opposite side. I had gone to the opposite en d of the carriage. When I got in he asked if I was going far, and if I was going further than Farnham. I did not answer him. Ho spoke again, and I said " Yes," but did not say where. I did speak to the other young woman. At Surbiton ho said " How old are yen ? you aro not very old, you are not 18." I said, " Perhaps lam 12." Nothing more was said about my age. Ido not think I told him where I had come from. I think I said that I had come from 100 miles below Lon don; but I said that to the young person who was in the carriage, with whom I was in conversation. He may have heard it, or he may not. I cannot say. I do not think I told him that I had been down in Suffolk. He asked me various questions, but I paid no attention to what he said. They were questions such as any gentleman might put to a lady in a railway carriage. He appeared to be asleep while the young lady was in the carriage, but he suddenly woke up when she left. I thought he had no right to put the questions which he did. I was frightened of him, and that was why I got out of the carriage. I never said I was offered £2OO to compromise the case. I would not accept of any amount to with. draw from a case in which my character was at stake. Mr Bent objected to the questions Mr Eve was putting to the witness. Mr Eve did not understand in what position Mr Bent was there. Mr Bent said he appeared for the railway com pany, who had thought fit to take up the case for the protection of those who travelled on the line. He knew he had no legal locus sta2zdi. The Chairman—There is no necessity, Mr. Bent, for you to say anything. Unless a great deal of very different evidence is to come out, neither the com pany nor the young lady require any advocate. Mr Eve asked the witness whether she offered any opposition or resistance to the prisoner. She replied that she did not know what he meant by opposition or resistance. She got out of the carriage at the risk of her life, and she could net understand what more effective resistance she could have made. Upon Mr Eve pressing some further questions, A Magistrate intimated that he thought the cross•ezamination unfair. Mr Eve—l am doing the best I can for my client. A Magistrate—And bad is the best. (Approba tion in court.) After a protracted cross-examination, Mr Stokes and some other witnesses were ex amined, and proved the general facts, which are already known to the public. The prisoner was committed for trial, but ad mitted to bail in his own recognisances of £5OO and two sureties of £250 each. His father and brother gave the required sureties, and he was liberated. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT—WARWICK, July 13. NISI PRILTS COURT. (Before Mr Justice Keating and a Common Jury.) HARRISON V. DOWLING. This was an action which disclosed a very discreditable phase of sporting life. _ . Mr Digby Seymour, Q.C., and Mr. Wills appeared for the plaintiff—and Mr. Field, Q.C., and Mr Gibbons for the defendant. The plaintiff, who is a horse dealer in Birmingham, sought to recover from the defendant, the editor of Bell's Life en London, a sum of £lOO, which had been deposited in his hands to abide the event of a trotting match for 20 miles between a pony of the plaintiff's, called Daisy, and another called Potato Bob, the property of a Mr Reid, a potato dealer at Birmingham. The case for the plaintiff was that Daisy led Potato Bob for the first 13 miles of the race, at the end of which Daisy's driver was desired by the referee to pull up on the ground that the supporters of Potato Bob were continually getting in front of Daisy, and impeding her course. Daisy was then pulled up, and Potato Bob shot ahead until he arrived at the Castle Donning turnpike-gate. This gate was found closed and the road blocked up by carts surrounded by " roughs" who refused to let Potato Bob pass, and threat ened the life of the referee. causing a great scene of uproar and confusion, amid which blows were freely interchanged between the partisans of the two ponies. The referee there upon said he would give his decision in favour of Potato Bob unless the gate was opened. This was done, and Potato Bob and Daisy, which had by that time come up to the gate, proceeded leisurely to the winning-post, when the referee announced that ho would give his decision at his owx house on the following evening. The parties accord ingly went there, when the referee announced that both parties had acted unfairly, and the race must be run again. The case for the defendant was that the referee had not told the driver of Daisy to pull up, but that the animal had stopped from exhaustion, and that at the turnpike-gate the referee had given an unequivocal decision in favour of Po tato Bob. The dgendant had adopted this view, and had handed over the stakes to Mr Reid upon receiving an in• demnity from him. A great number of witnesses were called, those for the plaintiff flatly contradicting those for the defendant upon every point of the case, material and immaterial; and after a tedious trial, which lasted upwards of seven hours, The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed, being his share of the stakes deposited in the hands of the defendant. SOUTH WALES CIRCUIT,—IIAVERFOEDWEST, July 13. MURDE R. (Before Mr Justice Crompton.) Mary Prout, spinster, aged 22, was indicted for the wilful murder of Rhoda Prout, at the parish of Amroth, on the 20th May, 1864. The prisoner had been delivered at the Narberth Union Workhouse of a female child on the 9th April, and left on the 20th May at 6p m. The child was healthy but small. The prisoner was seen about 8 a.m. on the 21st by Hannah Davies in the road leading to Amroth Church and Colby lodge. She then had a child with her, and, according to the evidence of a daughter of this witness, who also saw the prisoner, the child was sucking at the time. The path in which the prisoner then was led in the direction of an old coalpit disused and half filled up, about 26 yards deep and about 150 yards from the place where the prisoner was met by Hannah Davies and her daughter. The prisoner in the evening went to the house of her grandmother about three•quarters of a mile from the pit where the body of the child was found. She told her grandmother the child had died in the workhouse. On the 22d of May the child was found at the bottom of the old coalpit mentioned above, with extrensive fractures of the cranial bones and considerable extravasation of blood on the brain. The left thigh was also broken, and there were several marks of bruises and exco nations on the surface of the body. All the viscera were healthy, but a little pale. r The medical evidence showed that these injuries were in flicted during life, and were the cause of death. When the prisoner was apprehended on Monday, the 23d, she told the policeman, " If they hang me for it, I'll tell the truth. I threw it, and ran away a short distance, and then returned and found there was no noise." After an able address by the prisoner's Counsel, who con tended that there was no conclusive evidence that the child left the workhouse alive, and that it might have died of convulsions, and that the prisoner was insane at the time of committing the act, _ . The jury found the prisoner guilty, with a strong recom mendation to mercy on the ground of absence of premedi. tation. His Lordship then most impressively pronounced sen• tence of death. The case has excited the greatest interest, as, we believe ; there has been no capital conviction and execution in Pem• brokeshire for the past 30 years. HOME CIRCUIT—CHELMSFORD ; July 15. CROWN COUR'. (Before Mr Baron Martin,) The calendar on the whole was extremely light. There were only 16 cases for trial, out of which not less than four, or one-fourth of the whole number, were cases of offences against women or girls, of which one was a case of actual rape, There were three of these at Hereford, which offence appears to be rather on the increase. There was also a case or administering drugs with intent to procure abortion. There were two charges against women for concealing births of bastard children, and one case of child murder. So that nearly one half of the cases in the calendar were of that class of offences. The greater number of the remaining dases (as many as five or six) were cases of arson. The rest were ordinary cases of robbery, and there was one slight case of burglary. The first case tried was one of robbery,which resulted in an acquittal, and the case of burglary was so slight that the learned judge only inflicted a sentence of 6 months' imprisonment, observing that it was to the credit of the county that the calendar was on the whole so light and contained no serious cases of robbery or burglary. The next case taken was one which appeared to excite a painful inte rest in the county, A young woman named Regina Clarke was indicted for unlawfully and secretly disposing of the body, with the in tention of concealing the birth of a child of which she had been delivered at Danbury, in this county. Mr Walford was for the prosecution—Mr Woollett and Mr Philbrick for the defence. The girl, who was said to bo scarcely 19, had been for some months in the service of the Bishop of Rochester, whose palace is at Danbury, and her conduct appeared to have been irreproachable, apart froin the particular matter in question. On the 25th April the dead body of a newly born infant was found on a cinder heap belonging to the kitchen offices, and it appeared that the girl had been deli vered of a child a day or two before. The girl had been let out on bail, and now surrendered to take her trial, Her ap pearance was such as to indicate that her birth was rather above her present position. She was fair and delicate, and her countenance showed sensibility and intelligence. She was in an agonising state of mind, and when placed within the bar she almost swooned away with emotion, and could scarcely be supported even in a sitting posture by the ma tron of the gaol. The counsel for the prosecution, in opening the case, said it was most distressing, and the learned judge, observing the condition of the poor girl, suggested to him to cut short his statement of the circumstances, as they evi dently caused much pain to the prisoner, and at once to call the witnesses. It appeared from the evidence that the cinder heap was constantly in use and that the servants were daily at it; and the body could easily be seen and was seen the very day or day after it was placed there, and it was of this it will be seen the defence was founded. The surgeon stated that he found the poor girl very ill, pale, and almost pulse - less, and she had evidently been delivered of a child. Its death, he said, was evidently accidental, and the delivery might have been so. There was no actual evidence that the girl put the child's body where it was found. At the close of the evidence for the prosecution, Mr Woollett submitted that there was no case of con cealment within the statute, and cited from a manuscript case of Foster and Finlason's Nisi Prius Reports, a case tried before the learned Baron on the Northern Circuit, in which he had held that a " penfold"—a sort of pound enclosed within walls four or five feet high—was not a place of concealment within the statute. The learned Judge, however, said that was an open place, and different from the present. There had been, he observed, different decisions as to the construction of the statute ; but there was, he thought, here a sufficient place of concealment within the statute, if the prisoner placed it there. In summing up the case, however, his lordship said there must, under the statute, be a secret disposition of the dead body, and the question for the jury was whether there was such a disposition of the body by the prisoner. If she placed it there with the intention that it should be covered by the cinders and thus concealed, it would be a case within the statute. Did the prisoner place the child where it was found P and if so, with what intention ? There was cer tainly no direct evidence that she placed tho child there, and it was quite consistent with the evidence that she did not do so. The father of the child, as to whom there was no evidence at all, might have been in or about the house, and he might have known of the birth, though other people did not know it ; and it was possible that he placed the child where it was found. The jury must be satisfied before they convicted the prisoner that she placed the child there or was a party to the act ; and if they were in any doubt on that point they should certainly acquit the prisoner, The jury consulted together some minutes, during which the poor girl appeared quite unconscious. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty, to the evident satisfaction of every one in court. Two sturdy-looking fellows, named Waller and Monk, were indicted for assaulting a gamekeeper and doing him grievous bodily harm, Mr Shaw prosecuted ; Mr Pearce was for the prisoners. On the evening of the9th March the keeper saw four men on a bank near Holmwood-land, belonging to Lord May nard, and he asked them what they were doing there. They got up, one of them saying, " Knock the old devil down," surrounded him, and struck him on the back of the head with sticks, and he received a severe blow on the spine, from which he was still suffering. The men then ran off, and only the two prisoners were identified. They were convicted and sentenced to 12 months' im prisonment with hard labour. Several cases of arson were in the calendar, as there were at the winter assizes, and The learned Baron observed that he feared the offence was very prevalent in the county. A labourer named Guyver, aged 50, was indicted for setting fire to a dwelling-house on the Bth inst. The evidence was circumstantial, but a boy swore he saw him creeping along in a field of barley close to the spot just after the house was on fire. He was convicted ; and The learned Judge said he entirely concurred in the ver dict, and as the offence was so serious and so prevalent, he deemed it his duty to inflict a severe sentence by way of ex ample. The sentence was that he undergo penal servitude for ten years. , The prisoner was removed from the bar protesting his in nocence, which he continued to assert while the Judge was passing sentence. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, POST.—The present occasion is one which cer tainly appears admirably fitted for the consideration of the precise nature of the obligations subsisting between ourselves and those colonial dependencies which at the same time constitute our strength and our weakness. We cannot therefore complain of the discussion to which the motion for the second reading of the New Zealand Loan Bill gave rise last evening. However successful we may have been of late in maintaining, under the most difficult circumstances, peaceful relations with the great Powers of the world, we have unfortunately become engaged in two or three little wars in distant parts of the globe which have certainly redounded neither to out credit nor advantage. It is scarcely a month since the public learned that we were engaged in hostilities with a savage tribe on the West Coast of Africa, and that although not a single shot had been fired nearly half the entire force we brought into the field had been swept away or invalided by disease. It is needless now to recapitulate the sad history of the Ashantee war, so fresh in the memory of our readers, or to refer to details which shocked the country, and compelled the Government to abandon forthwith an enterprise which should never have been undertaken. But it was not alone on the coast of Africa that British troops were being em ployed during the past few months in vindicating the honour of our flag, nor was it there only that valuable lives were being sacrificed in a war se ith savages. For close on a twelvemonth the native tribes of New Zealand have been in revolt, and during the same period the Colonial Government, with the assistance of her Majesty's forces, have been engaged in endeavouring to reduce them to subjection. The accounts transmitted from time to time to this country of the progress of the war might, on the whole, be considered favourable ; and the intelligence forwarded by one of the recent mails led the more sanguine to conclude that the revolt was on the point of being suppressed. The latest tidings, however, which reached this country must have dissipated such an impression. In one of those military operations which the general in command found it expedient to execute the troops employed sustained a serious reverse. The object to be gained was to dislodge a few hundred savages from a pale or earthwork, of which they had posses■ sion ; and in accomplishing this th© attacking force lost no less than 32 killed, of whom 9 were officers, and 72 wounded, including four commissioned officers. The 43d Regiment lost its lieutenant colonel, four captains, and two lieutenants, whilst a captain and a commander in the Royal Navy were also amongst the slain. Before the sad intelligence reached this country the Government had brought in a bill guaranteeing a loan to be raised by the Colonial Government to meet the expenditure occa sioned by the war, and last evening its second reading was moved in the House of Commons. In presence of the facts recently brought to our know ledge it was, however, impossible that the proposed measure should receive the sanction of the Legisla ture as a mere matter of course. When the proposal of the Imperial Government to guarantee the New Zealand Loan was mooted in the House of Lords a few weeks since, -we directed attention to the rela tionship which, in our opinion, ought to subsist between this country and its colonies. It is for the interest of the empire that its colonies should in crease, and so long as the colonists observe their allegiance to the Home Government they are entitled to claim its protection. But this general principle, however true in itself, is subject to certain important modifications. In the first place, a distinction must be drawn between that protection British colonists are entitled to claim from the aggressive acts of foreign Powers, which have no pretensions to exer cise jurisdiction in the new settlement, and that protection which they may demand in the prosecu tion of their work of colonisation against the original owners of the soil. This is a distinction of a very important kind, though constantly lost sight of or ignored. For instance, if France ought to dislodge our colonists from their settlements in New Zealand, no one can doubt for a moment that it would be the duty of the Imperial Government, with all the force at its command, to resist such aggression. But whether it is also the duty of the Home Go vernment to aid settlers in intestine wars which arise from attempts upon their part to enlarge their dominions, and the continuance or cessation of which is exclusively under the control of their own Legislature, is open to considerable doubt, Now, without inquiring into the origin of the Maori war, or into the grounds assigned by the natives for the present revolt, it is abundantly evident that it de pends almost exclusively upon the Colonial Legis lature to determine the conditions upon which the war shall cease, short of the extermination or com plete subjugation of the aborigines. Under these circumstances, the question is certainly a legitimate one how far the taxpayers of these islands should be called upon to provide for an expenditure over which they exercised no control. HERALD..—The end of the session is at hand. Parliament will be prorogued early this year. As well it may. It has been asked by the Ministry to do nothing, and with the exception of its labours in the way of private legislation it has done nothing. Two or three amending bills, to remedy the grosser and more intolerable blunders of previous Whig legislation, constitute the only chapters of the year's statutes which have the slightest public interest or importance. The Ministry, to do them justice, did not promise much ; but, small as was their promise, they have not performed it. We do not regard paucity of legislation in itself as an evil; on the contrary, we believe that the fewer the acts Parliaa meat passes, the more likely it is to have deserved well of the country. But, unfortuately, Parliament has been, in previous sessions, unwise enough to legislate too much ; it has adopted a number of crude, incoherent, and mischievous measures of legal and social reform brought forward by the present Government; and, by the confession of the members th a t u-overnment, tho se , acts ment. Two or require very consider:l;le az . ct, and am rectified, but three very gross blunders have e‘ no serious attempt has been made .4 o amend laws which have almost taught the comink. 'rcial public to curse the very name of law reform. Mr. Bass will probably be the hero of the sessio,”: and whatever opinion people may hold upon the ga l ' a t question of street music, only a very few fanatia: per o contro la musica will hold the passing of his bill sufficient to redeem the session from the re.. proach of barrenness. It is true that the Ministry,, although they have brought forward very few bins , themselves, and of these few have withdrawn the most, have given their warm support to a good many bills introduced by private members. The usual attempts to despoil the Church and un-Chris tianise the Universities, to reduce the franchise, and transfer sovereign power to the mob, have been. made by Radical members, and have received the votes of the immense majority, and the enthusiastic advocacy of some, of her Majesty's Ministers. Un fortunately for the Ministry the lustre of success has not redeemed the discredit of the wretched. effort to recover a little Radical favour ; their ap pearance on the floor as advocates of a measure has been the signal, as Mr. Gladstone will long re• member, for its immediate and ignominious rejec tion. The Ministry passed their Budget because. they proposed no new tax; they carried their esti mates because they asked less than in previous years; but they were defeated whenever they pre. posed any decisive legislation, and made to suffer humiliation and mortification which no body of men with a thought for anything nobler than the flesh-pots of Downing -street would have endured. Happy England, which rejoices in a Ministry alk the members of which, in their intense devotion to , her interests, in their overpowering conviction that to commit the rudder of the State to any other hands would be an irreparable misfortune, are pres pared to sacrifice their reputation for truth, honour, and principle, and consent to hold power at the hands of a majority which, whilst keeping them in office, tells them, with the most offensive plainness, that they are as unprincipled as they are incapable! In no other country in the world could statesmen of a patriotism so extreme, and, to decent people, so disgusting, be discovered. Looking at the position from the stand-point of her Majesty's Ministers we can well understand that they are satisfied with the session. They wilt be at the end Ministers of the Crown, and that is much more than they hoped at the beginning. That they have been universally blamed, that the House of Lords has formerly censured. them, and the House of Commons has, whilst de. dining to record a formal condemnation, declared by the mouths of the representative speakers of the majority its dissatisfaction and disgust, mat ters nothing to men whose only object is to keep in office. What; do Lord Palmerston, to whom office has now become a necessity of life, and Mr Layard, to whom it is equally so, care about the condemnaw tion of Messrs. Cobden, Bright, Roebuck, Hors. man, Forster, and Goldsmid, so long as those gen tlemen give their votes to keep them in office. Wise in their generation, her Majesty's Ministers will take abuse with complacence whilst they can get votes, and they are chuckling now over the sue. cess of the dodge by which they prevented all dis cussion of their policy until their condemnation would have been too late to save Denmark, and Liberal members could find an excuse for voting for them in the impossibility of retrieving the blunders they had committed. It will be a cheery jovial meeting at Greenwich on Saturday next. None of tbose who will be present dared to hope a few months, or even a few weeks, ago there would be such a reunion, As their hearts warm with the assurance that they have another six months of office and patronage secured them—as the more fortunate of the band grow elated with the promise of a pension, their voices will join in. grateful acknowledgment of the cleverness with. which their chief has jockeyed Parliament, and. they will vie in cutting sneers at the Liberal critics in the House of Commons, who making a great parade of scolding them, voted to keep them in office, and at the independent Liberal newspapers, which threatening war up to the very evening that the Premier declared peace at any price would be his policy, immediately discovered that peace was the only course for sagacious statesmen, and that war was a policy only fitted for the Tories, who had entered into an alliance with the Pope to pro tect Denmark against Austria, and—horror of hors rors—light the torch of insurrection in Venetia and Hungary. The Ministerial party may well laugh as they sip their wine at Trafalgar. They have accom.. plished all they care for. Although they have degraded England they have kept their places. The people hiss them, but they may count, if no accident occurs upon six or even nine months more of office and its accompaniments. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL-FRIDAY. There was about the usual attendance to-day of town dealers, but very few of the country trade, and wheat met with a gt. od inquiry both on the spot and to arrive. A fair business at about ld advance upon last Tuesday's prices. Flour held for fully previous rates. Oats in good request at an improvement in prices, but oatmeal only a moderate , demand at about last Tuesday's prices. Deans unchanged , Indian corn in moderate demand. STAMFORD—FRIDAY. Not so much wheat as usual, with a tolerably active de mand, and prices may be quoted Is per qr improvement -White wheat, 44s to 46s ; red, 39s to 44s per 36 stone• Barley, malting, 32s to 345; grinding, 27s to 29s per qr. Oats, 22s to 25s13er 24 stone. Beans, old, 40s to —s per qr.; new, 35s to 38s. LINCOLN.—FRIDAY. About the usual quantity of wheot to-day, which sold. at nearly is per qr over last week's prices. Barley inactive. Oats fully maintain late rates. Beans is advance. White wheat new, 43a to 47s Barley, g-rinding..26s to 289 Red do. 4os to 43s Oats,:old, .. 24s to 265 Old white 43s to 46s New;do 20s to 230 Red dc:. 38s to 42s 1 Beans. 37s to 400 Barley, malting.... 32s to 34s 1 Beans, new 34s to 36s C ORK-T HURS DAY. The following were the quotations this morning :--Red wheat, 8s Od to 8s 10d; white, 8s Od to Os 8d , barley, Is ld to Os Od ; oats, 6s 6d to Os 8d ; black do., 5s 6d to 5s Ild. WAKEFIELD-FRIDAY. The wheat trade was inactive to-day, and last Friday's prices advanced is per qr. Beans and oats rather dearer. I3arley„dull. Weather fine. BRISTOL SUGAR—FRIDAY. There has been very little doing here in sugars, and the prices are fully 6d lower than last week. Refiners' produce continues limited in demand, and the trade purchase onlY sufficient to meet their daily requirements. Rum—The demand is limited, and only about 50 puncheons Demerara have been sold at is 10d proof gallon. COAL DI Frloes of Coal per Ton a 1 LA ltiiET. t the close of the market. 1 s. d s. d. Hastings Hartley l7 3 Holywell 16 6 Tantield Moor Butes-13 6 Wylam 15 6 IN siker Primrose 13 3 Walls End. Haswell .. ...18 6 Heugh Hall 17 9 South Kelloe 17 9 Braddyll's Hetton 17 9 Tunstall .... 9 Cassop l7 South Hetton 18 6 q, 26 ; sold, 21. Walls End. Ridden....., l7 0 Ships at mark( [ADVERTISENENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.-- Indisputable remedies for bad legs, old wounds, sores, and ulcers. If used according to directions given with them, there is no wound, bad leg, ulcerous sore, or bad b r east, however obstinate or long standing, but will yield to their healing and curativo properties. Numbers of persons who, have been patients in several of the large hospitals, and under the care of eminent surgeons, without rendering the slightest benefit, have been thoroughly cured by Hoilnway' e Ointment and Pills. For glandular swellings, tumours, scurvy, and diseases of the skin, there is no medicine tha t can be used with so good an effect. In fact, in the worst forms of disease dependent upon the condition of the blood these remedies are irresistible. Births. CA STELLO.—On the 14th inst., at 52, Clifton•gardens, W*l the wife of Daniel Castello, Esq., of a son. ELY.—On the 14th i ns t ., a t Hampstead, the wife of Talfottr 4 Ely, Esq., of a daughter. MOSTYN.--On the 10th inst., at the Baths of Lucca, t he Hon. Mrs. Mostyn, of a daughter. SAUMAREZ.—On the 12th inst., at The Firs, St. Lawrenc.e.; Jersey, the wife of Captain Thomas Saumarez, R.N.) a son. Marriage& FREER—KIRICE.—On the 12th inst., al Saint Nichols°, Brighton, Major R Freer, 27th Inniskitlinga, to ga r / Elma, elder daughter of the late Rev. Sr. George Singe' rector of Martin, Lincolnshire. FLEMING .—GORHAIL.—On the 14th inst., at Tunbridg°, Isaac; Plant Fleming, Esq., 8.C.L., of Tunbridge Castle, to Emily, eldest daughter of Wm. Gorham, Esq., F°" - Bank, Tunbridge. _ _ Deaths. ALDOUS.—On the 13th inst., at 15, Craven-hill, ilYd v park, Wm. Aldous, Esq., aged 75. BAILFF.—On the 14th inst., at St. John's, Wakefield, 3- ' 2 " Bear, Esq., aged 69. BA.ELOW.—On the 13th inst., at Brixton-hill, Surrefj Samuel Barlow, Esq,, lat e o f Cl apton, Middl es ex, og e 70. EURINGTON.—On the 15th inst., at 47, Lower Gros - cell - o f street, Claudine St an l ey E rr i ngton, e ld es t d a ughter Sir Rowland Stanley Errington. PENNINGTON.—On the 12th inst , at Vevey, the 2: Fanny Caroline P enn i ngton, e ld est d aug ht er o f Lowtliv third Lord Muncaster, aged 34. costa PEr.cy.--On th e 11th inst., at Fareham, Agnes , 15 , e daughter of th e l ate Hon. and Rev. Hugh Percy, if• Lord Bishop of Carlisle. _ — 4 London : and I'rt , ll;lieti by WILLIAM AWI)11-6' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE Sufi (Mee No. Strand, In the Precinct of the Savoy, n the CovA/ ItLiddleseat,—Saturday, July 16,1864. in . Sa Nt, lo t Ehl w, for all, 1 hal day NV' 13ay 'Joel Rob ch ref ' ton, I,ive ...Ti .tan 'eh %las Jle, eh ( S. L. Ten